Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech From Text

Tacotron 2 is a neural network that can generate speech directly from text. It combines a sequence-to-sequence model with an attention mechanism to convert text into a spectrogram, which is then fed into a WaveNet vocoder to create the final audio. This system produces speech that is remarkably close to human speech in terms of naturalness and clarity, significantly improving upon previous text-to-speech technologies.